The CasiOak is fine, the analogue part is the problem
By Abby Turner, Melbourne ยท
Everybody calls this the CasiOak because the octagonal bezel looks a bit like an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. That joke has been told so often I think even AP is sick of it.
I'll say the nice stuff first. It's 48.5 mm wide but only 11.8 mm thick, which is slim for a G-Shock, and with the carbon core resin case it's light and comfy for a long shift. 200 m water resistance, world time, alarm, stopwatch and countdown timer. US$100 to $110 is fair.
Here's my issue. The hands are thin and the little digital windows are small. When I need to count a pulse I want seconds big and obvious, and on this one you're squinting at a tiny bit of LCD or watching the hands, which are hard to pick out on the black dial at a glance. The lume is decent but not great.
So: love it as a weekend watch, wouldn't pick it for work. If you want G-Shock toughness on shift, get the square one.